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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Sometimes I see cakes that are so undeniably Wrecky that I'm almost ashamed of myself for thinking they're cute. I'm not sure how such a thing is possible, either - are they flukes? Slips of the piping bags? The inevitable result of a million Wreckerators working on a million cupcakes? The world may never know. Or care.

Who's a cute widdle turd!?

Sure, it may look like a pile of poo on the banks of the Jungle Cruise*, but it's actually supposed to be a cat. Or maybe a lion. With a monkey tail. Regardless, see how the decorator compels us to overlook its blatant turdiness with his/her skillful application of puppy...cat eyes?

* Explanation for Non-Disney Geeks - See, the water on the Jungle Cruise ride at Disney is often dyed a shocking shade of blue-green. I think you have to be decontaminated if you fall in.****Follow-up from Jen: Puh-lease, "decontaminated"? It's just a little tetanus shot.

This next one makes use of the "two-cupcakes-drowning-in-icing-on-an-oversized-cakeboard" approach:

See? It's a cow. Or maybe ground beef. ("What do you call a cow with no legs, Alex?") Or Beef Stroganoff. ("A cow with noodles for legs?")

How can I tell it's a cow, and not a spotted dog with an awesome bouffant 'do sitting on a robot*? By reading the "moo" in the barren desert of cake board, that's how. [tapping temple] Skills. I gots 'em.

*Picture the nostrils as eyes for a minute - you'll see it. (Note: alcohol helps.)

Here's another one, fortified with rich, healthy irony:

An embarrassed skunk letting out a little toot, or a Wreckerator letting out a little workplace aggression? More importantly: which makes you hungrier?

Next is a real fluke; it's both the Wreckiest and the cutest cake for today:

A Wreckerator sets out to make a frog and ends up with a sloppy cross-eyed face with jowls, and yet it's still adorable? Now that's luck. (Dig the candle horns.)

And finally we have what appears to be a cross between a mutant rubber ducky and Angelina Jolie:

My mom got my girls a 2 cupcakes drowing in icing "cake" that looked like a dog. Why bother with cake at all at this point? My girls would have liked it better if it was just a mountain of icing. Neither one of them touched the cupcake.

On my first glimpse of the rubber duck, I saw two big flaming horns coming out of the top.

I then started thinking of how you could route tubes from a propane canister through a cake to the top of it to make giant flaming "candles" for dramatic effect. Perhaps mixed with tubes routing dry-ice smoke...

But alas, there are no horns. It was simply a reflection which confused my eye.

Interesting. Google Reader shows me that this entry was posted by John, but I saw all the comments directed at Jen and was perplexed. I looked on the entry itself; I can't find anything ON Cakewrecks that shows who posted it.

Several years ago we were doing the canoe "ride" at Disneyland. Now I say "ride" because it isn't one, there is no track and they actually expect you to paddle around that whole dang island yourself... anyways.. at one point the Cast Member calls out to the kids in the back "Do NOT splash each other. The water is green for a reason and you do NOT want that Reason on you!"

The green face is perhaps an alien, as in Little Green Man from Mars. The candles look like antennas to me (what's plural of antenna?) Probably someone's already said this, but I'm short on time and can't read all the comments right now. Although I wish I could.

These cakes are awesome, so funny. My mom used to make Strawberry Shortcake and Garfield looking cakes when I was little!

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ahhhh the jungle cruise water! as a former jungel cruise skipper I would like to point out that the tetnis shot you have to get when falling ihas nothing to do with the dye...but with the large amount of animal and human fecal matter (i.e. baby diapers tossed overboard) that end up in the river on a daily basis...daily.

And on another interesting note...the dye actually starts out a deep purple and it added to the water via scwitzer falls...which is why the jungle looks very foamy on water color day :)

I had my suspicions but at the end I read:"posted by john (the hubby of JEN) at 9:30 AM on Oct 1, 2009" and knew it was a 'guest' poster...My 16 yr old took one look at the "turd" and said,"It's a lemur! Why else would it be in a jungle?!?"

I used to be a jungle cruise skipper as well - and one rainy day, I slipped on the dock and fell in, between the boat and the dock! Luckily, since it was less than 50% of my body that fell in (just my leg and arm on my left side), I did not need to get the tetnus shot. I only had 30 mins left of my shift, and was hoping they would just send me home. Nope, they sent me all the way back to change into a new costume! I love Disney stuff, but the managers are EVIL!-Amy

Got to run, so PLEASE forgive me not reading all the comments just in case this is old news now, but I have had a Disney Official (i.e. the guy driving the Storybook Land boat) tell us that all you have to do if you fall in the water there is wait for it to dry and then peel it off. See? Easy Peasy. And I suppose it would count as an extra souvenir.

Yes, but the bottom side of water is far more interesting than the backside of water. (and, yes, there is a place on Disney property that gives you an excellent view of the bottom side of water ... drive past the TTC parking lot, just before you get to the Toaster, you'll go completely underwater for about 1 1/2 seconds)

You know how they have that blue-green water at mini golf places too? Well apparently this post brought back some latent memories of my childhood, because I am now remembering my mother telling me and my sisters that if we fell in (we were a boisterous bunch) that she wouldn't help us out and we would get skin diseases. Thanks, Mom.

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